Click here to read the Too Much weekly edition emailed to readers on April 18, 2011.

Inside this issue: Taxpayers, once again this year, are subsidizing over-the-top CEO pay by the billions. But now on the table: a promising new proposal that encourages corporations to share that excess — or else . . . The academic achievement gap between rich and poor: Why the surge? . . . Measuring the gap between the wealth of America’s most typical households and America’s richest households.